Email Sending, Change "From" Name

[vBNinja]

Hello,

When sending an email to users, there is only the "from email" field to enter the email to send from. Is there a way to enter an email but have it show a name as the sender instead of "abc@domain.com" ?

Thanks in advance

[kh99]

You're talking about the "Send Email to Users" function? It could be done without a lot of trouble but you'd have to modify admincp/email.php. I'll give you more details if you're interested.

[vBNinja]

Originally Posted by kh99

You're talking about the "Send Email to Users" function? It could be done without a lot of trouble but you'd have to modify admincp/email.php. I'll give you more details if you're interested.

Sure that would be great

[kh99]

OK, edit email.php and make these changes:

Around line 63, find this section and add the line in red:

		'subject'           => TYPE_STR,
		'message'           => TYPE_STR,
		'fromname'          => TYPE_STR,
	));

Around line 223 find this section and add the parameters in red (scroll right to see it) (ETA: the '' parameter before it should have been in red as well):

	if (!$vbulletin->GPC['test'])
	{
		echo $vbphrase['emailing'] . " \n";
		vbmail($user['email'], $vbulletin->GPC['subject'], $sendmessage, true, $vbulletin->GPC['from'], '', $vbulletin->GPC['fromname']);
	}

Around line 257 find this code and add the line in red:

	construct_hidden_code('serializedprofile', sign_client_string(serialize($vbulletin->GPC['profile'])));
	construct_hidden_code('from', $vbulletin->GPC['from']);
	construct_hidden_code('fromname', $vbulletin->GPC['fromname']);
	construct_hidden_code('subject', $vbulletin->GPC['subject']);
	construct_hidden_code('message', $vbulletin->GPC['message']);

And around line 323 (you get the idea now):

	print_input_row($vbphrase['email_to_send_at_once'], 'perpage', 500);
	print_input_row($vbphrase['from'], 'from', $vbulletin->options['webmasteremail']);
	print_input_row("From Name:", 'fromname', '');
	print_input_row($vbphrase['subject'], 'subject');
	print_textarea_row($vbphrase['message_email'], 'message', '', 10, 50);

That will create another text field on the "Send Email" page that lets you enter a "From" name. But, there's one more issue: The mail functions in includes/class_mail.php automatically add a '-' follwed by the forum name to the From name. You could edit class_mail.php and take that out, but then it might also disappear from other emails that get sent in other ways (I haven't followed all the logic so I don't know exactly which ones). If you wanted, you could add a parameter to the email function to take care of that but it starts getting more complicated... (if it's an issue let me know and we can work that out).

[vBNinja]

Thanks, i don't want to run into any errors by doing this, do you think there's a stable solution?

[addamroy]

I hate to bump an old thread but kh I just used this and it's AWESOME. Should be a default feature in future vb versions if I do say so myself.

Anyway, I would like to know how to remove the - forum name, part from showing in emails via the 'send email to users' function like you mentioned... Would be awesome if you could share that.